it's not what you know; it's who you know...

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Across
  1. 1. works for the county
  2. 7. sisters
  3. 8. gone to the dogs (& cats)
  4. 12. teenage mutant ninja turtle
  5. 13. started life as a vanmersbergen
  6. 14. hails from the land of corn
  7. 16. classical teacher
  8. 18. dairyman's wife
  9. 19. gives bovine pedicures
Down
  1. 2. one of our pastoral marks
  2. 3. dinged up? go to him
  3. 4. were hula dancing last week
  4. 5. mechanically inclined
  5. 6. tall, bespectacled pastor
  6. 9. got married frankly
  7. 10. she'll nurse you to health
  8. 11. sign of spring
  9. 15. hairy and got 2 bits? go to him
  10. 16. BP engineer
  11. 17. jim's nephew